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Xenophon PCDGS
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Forteviot in Perth and Kinross is another settlement where an example of a finely carved Pictish stone can be viewed,
I confess to being at my wits' end with this one: forced again onto a random name-resemblance. A good deal further south in Scotland, in the Borders: there is the similarly-named (after the first few letters
) River Teviot -- tributary of the Tweed -- on which lies the village of Ancrum.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lilliesleaf in Roxburghshire also lies on the line of the Ale Water.
Springs Branch
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Proving you don't need to be English to be eccentric, until the 1990s, Lilliesleaf had* an unusual (and probably unique) multi-purpose local business in the form of a Post Office with a hairdresser in the back room.
Another more replicated combination is the Irish tradition of some publicans doubling up as the local funeral director - one example being McCarthy’s Pub in Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
* According to Wiki, so it must be true!
Another more replicated combination is the Irish tradition of some publicans doubling up as the local funeral director - one example being McCarthy’s Pub in Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
* According to Wiki, so it must be true!
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Kildare in County Kildare also has an equine hospital.
EbbwJunction1
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In July 1903, the first international motor race to be held in Britain or Ireland (The Gordon Bennett Cup) was held. The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland wanted the race to be hosted in Britain or Ireland, and Ireland was suggested as racing was illegal on British public roads. The route consisted of two loops in a figure eight, the first a 52 mile loop including Kilcullen, The Curragh, Kildare, Monasterevin, Stradbally, Athy, followed by a 40 mi (64 km) loop through Castledermot, Carlow and Athy again.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Goresbridge in County Kilkenny also lies on the line of the River Barrow.
EbbwJunction1
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Gowran, County Kilkenny is also on the line of the R702 regional road.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Galway also has a collegiate church.
EbbwJunction1
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Galway was one of the stopovers for the 2008 / 2009 and 2011 / 2012 Ocean Races. Cardiff was used for the same purpose in the 2017 / 2018 Race.
We've mentioned before here, the plaintive song The Bells of Rhymney, about South Wales in the Depression. In said song, Cardiff gets a mention -- if I remember rightly, its bells declaim "All would be well if, if, if, if ...". Among other towns in the area featured, is Neath.
D6130
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Melrose in the Scottish Borders also has a ruined abbey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Glasgow also hosts an annual Pipe Band championship.
D6130
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Glasgow has a large population of people of Italian descent, as does Bedford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Perhaps an opportune time to show the above extract from the rules of this particular quiz.
Sorry -- it would seem that I was being too "summarisory", if that's a word. Could I re-cast my post -- amplifying the original, for which I intended the same meaning? -- "Two settlements with, in foreign parts (essentially toward the eastern side of North America) namesakes with the prefix "New": Bedford has, in Massachusetts, New Bedford; Liskeard (Cornwall) has in Ontario, New Liskeard."
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lostwithiel is another of the former Cornish stannary towns.
Wiki tells us that Jaques Bagratuni, an Armenian prince and Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia [presumably a short-lived post-Russian-Revolution phenomenon] to Britain, died in Lostwithiel in 1943. Nowadays one of Britain's more significant Armenian communities, is that in Manchester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lancaster also has a Friends Meeting House.
We learn that around the 17th century, the court based at Lancaster Castle sentenced more people to be hanged, than any other in the country outside London; earning Lancaster the nickname of "the Hanging Town". This would seem to make Lancaster a rival to Yorkshire settlements which have -- for similar reasons -- got some mention quite lately in this game, re the dictum "from Hull, Hell, and Halifax [place selected at random], Lord deliver us".
(At the risk of seeming at present, obsessed with Canada: were I to try to create a model railway based on Canadian railway practice: I would for sure call it the Hull, Hell, & Halifax [Hull, Quebec {just across the river from Ottawa}; Halifax, Nova Scotia; the other one, please yourselves]).
(At the risk of seeming at present, obsessed with Canada: were I to try to create a model railway based on Canadian railway practice: I would for sure call it the Hull, Hell, & Halifax [Hull, Quebec {just across the river from Ottawa}; Halifax, Nova Scotia; the other one, please yourselves]).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Holmfirth in West Yorkshire also has a choral society.
EbbwJunction1
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Jackson Bridge is a small village within the postal district of Holmfirth.
EbbwJunction1
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St Mary's Parish Church, Honley is a Grade II listed mostly Victorian Church, which was constructed in 1843 by Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793 – 1872) with later additions in 1888 and 1909. He was an English Church Architect, best-known today for designing St Peter-at-Leeds or Leeds Parish Church (now Leeds Minster), between 1837 and 1841. Another of his works around the same time was St Wilfred's Church, Pool-in-Wharfedale (also known as Pool in Wharfedale and usually abbreviated to Pool), which he built in 1839.
D6130
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Tadcaster in North Yorkshire also lies on the River Wharfe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Camblesforth in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Selby Poor Law Union.
Camblesforth is named as having suffered in William the Conqueror's "Harrying of the North" circa 1069 -- his forceful campaign to bring the resentful Northerners into line. Many bigger and more important settlements suffered thus then; including Northallerton.
johnnychips
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Northallerton is a non-obvious county town (N Yorkshire) as is Matlock (Derbyshire).